The Renaissance of the Darknet: How the Digital Underground Rebuilt Itself Smarter, Sharper, and Bigger Than Ever
The servers carrying the darknet’s two largest illicit marketplaces bled out in the summer of 2017. When the FBI, Europol, and the Dutch National Police pulled off Operation Bayonet, they didn’t just pull the plug on AlphaBay and Hansa; they staged a masterclass in shattering a digital community. The end of AlphaBay arrived like a…